12 ◾ Malicious Bots
were more than willing to cooperate with law enforcement during investigations, but
as time passed and more and more computer crimes were being committed, many
companies became inundated with requests from law enforcement. In addition, the
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itigious side of the business world began to creep into the formula, and many busi-
nesses that wanted to help were afraid to do so because of fear that they might be sued
for giving law enforcement information or assisting us. erefore, a court order was
usually required in order to obtain any identifying information from a business.
I wrote an affidavit describing the circumstances detailed above and received a
court order from a magistrate to obtain all the registration details for ...